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A family name on Angus Drive, Kerrisdale, Shaughnessy and Marpole

The Thomsons

In the city directories 1940 · seven people at two addresses

The directories print seven people named Thomson at two addresses in 1940, all on Angus Drive, with the close spellings Thomason and Thomasson. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Thomsons at 1675 Angus Drive in 1940. The directories print the name on 119 other streets too, all listed on the Thomson name's own page.

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Where the Thomsons lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    1675 Angus Drive

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • Alice Thomson, a widow 1940
    • Alice Thomson 1940
    • Betty Thomson, an outfit maker at the Provincial Board of Health BC Government 1940
    • Margaret Thomson 1940

    Next door in 1940: W M Crawford at 1637 and C M Vick at 1695. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    4715 Angus Drive

    Shaughnessy, 1940

    • D T Thomson, an accountant 1940
    • Gertrude E Thomson, a school teacher 1940
    • Mary E Thomson, a stenographer at London & Western Trusts 1940

    Next door in 1940: G L McMahon at 4749. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the seven: an accountant, an outfit maker, a school teacher and a stenographer. One is a widow, listed under her own name.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Shaughnessy (2). Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.

The story, address by address

The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Alice Thomson at 1675 Angus Drive, a widow, with Alice Thomson, Betty Thomson, an outfit maker at the Provincial Board of Health BC Government, and Margaret Thomson. D T Thomson is listed at 4715 Angus Drive in 1940; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists David T Thomson there as the householder, an accountant, with Gertrude E Thomson, a school teacher, and Mary E Thomson, a stenographer at London & Western Trusts.

Today

1675 Angus Drive still has its building from before 1946, dated 1909 by the City's record; the City no longer lists 4715 Angus Drive, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive
1912 A man on a white horse at the first camp for clearing Shaughnessy, near Angus Drive. Not at the house at 1675 Angus Drive: no archive photo of the 1600 block is known that we can show. City of Vancouver Archives, Dist P24.1. Public domain.

Every line as printed

All 8 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, name section, where each person's work is printed

The book of the Thomsons

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under T. Want a name removed? Tell us.